[Glade-devel] Glade and Custom widgets

[Todd Fisher]

Damon Chaplin wrote:

>No, you don't need to do that.
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>If your widget can calculate its own width & height exactly, it should
>do that in the normal size_request/size_allocate class methods, e.g. see
>gtklabel.c. You don't need to set the width/height in Glade in this
>case.
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>If your widget is something like a GtkTreeView, where the width & height
>is set by the application, you set the Width/Height on the Common tab to
>a reasonable *minimum* width/height, and then set the dialog's default
>width/height properties to a reasonable default size for the entire
>dialog. That way the user can resize the dialog as appropriate.
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Right so my widget is like a GtkTreeView; and the problem is when I set 
a specific width/height in the
common tab in glade my widget does not recieve a size_request with the 
values from the common tab.  Perhaps,
a better question is how are the width/height values from the common tab 
propagated to the custom widget?  I
was under the impression a custom widget would recieve a size_request.  
But, when I trace my widget it does not
recieve a size_request with the values in the commn tab.  So, for now 
i've resorted to using the parameters passed
to the widget constructor, int1 and int2.

-Todd

>On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 04:49, Todd Fisher wrote:
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>>Just doing some more digging and was curious if maybe this means it 
>>necessary to create register properties in the common tab via 
>>glade_register_custom_prop?
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>>thanks,
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>>-todd
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>>>Hi,
>>>   I'm developing an application using libglade-2.4.  I'm working on a 
>>>custom widget and am having difficulty understand how libglade handles 
>>>custom widgets and height/width_request under the properties tab 
>>>common.  Should my widget recieve a width_request?
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>
>>>todd
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